It's all such a honor to be joined by the brilliant Palestinian American analyst

Omar Bardar who's been one of the most important voices ever since what is now nearly

exactly a year of genocide. Omar, it's great to see you,

who you've been putting up with my, just come back from Austria and everything technically has collapsed, which is why I'm using a slightly dodgy camera, and I look slightly bit straggled.

But we move.

Yeah, it's the very least of our problems. The most important thing is we can hear you and see you.

Just give us a big picture. Where are we at? 4th of October,

the middle of the day, where we at?

You know, Owen, I think we are at an extremely dangerous moment right now

with the risk of an all-out war in the region.

That is entirely the responsibility and really the

result of the abdigation of responsibility by the Biden Harris administration

here in the US. We have allowed the most fanatical right-wing government in Israeli history to just go on a completely

insane rampage throughout the entire region and not just green-lighting it, but arming and supporting

what they're engaged in right now.

You think even though the Israeli government has made clear that they have no interest at all

in any kind of ceasefire and hostage deal, we've let them carry out a year of genocide in Gaza right now and they've carried

out assassinations. They've bombed the Iranian embassy in Damascus. They've carried

out an assassination in Tehran, the capital of Iran, on the eve of the

Iranian presidential inauguration, and Iran was told not to respond and discouraged from responding on the idea that a ceasefire is closed by.

And so they've been restrained. And what we've seen instead of working towards a meaningful de-escalation on a ceasefire

is that we've then allowed Israel to invade Lebanon, to bomb its

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